I've been lifting for about 6 weeks. 5'9" 150lbs. When I started 135lbs on the DL was heavy. I know they are sissy numbers and I'm in the 'noobgains' phase but I've never lifted anything that heavy in my life (28yrs)

2 plates is a big milestone regardless of the lift. Well done.

_________________Stu Ward_________________Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~HippocratesStrength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley_________________Thanks TimD

I've been lifting for about 6 weeks. 5'9" 150lbs. When I started 135lbs on the DL was heavy. I know they are sissy numbers and I'm in the 'noobgains' phase but I've never lifted anything that heavy in my life (28yrs)

Good job! There are no "sissy numbers"! Lift what's right for you right now. Yeah, it is fun to gain, and to lift heavy stuff. Keep it up!

_________________Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.--Francis Chan

Now after a long time out of the gym:Bench: 115kg (253lbs)Squat: 125kg (275lbs) (?Technique and Flexibility?)Leg Press: 250kg (550lbs)

No idea why bench has gone up untrained but oh well I'll take it! I hope to be back to my 18y.o. Weight (maybe lower), Body Fat% (Maybe Lower)and Squat and Leg press bests by September, they are my goals before I get married!

This was oh so long ago, I never did mention that I worked out why the Bench Press was so much higher, it's 'cause it wasn't! I was counting the bar on a Smith Machine as 20kg, turned out it was a counter weighted smith machine I was using that day so the bar was zero kg, so it was only a 95kg BP! Luckily it wasn't my regular gym so the weights are correct in my other posts!

So I decided to forget the past and look at the now and I can safely say these are my definite current PB's:Squat: 3x5x122.5kgDeads: 5x120kgOverhead Press: 3x5x55kgPower Clean: 4x5x67'5kg (after 2x5x65kg with a missloaded bar!)Bench Press: 3x5x80kgPull Ups: 8 in a row (need to do a new test set!)Chin Ups: 6 in a row (need to do a new test set!)

90 is a half squat. It`s not comparable to a parallel squat, which, I think, is jeffrerr`s point. Some people dobn`t have the flexibility to squat lower. They should also be careful to use spotting pins as it`s really easy to crash to the floor on a half squat. I just checked the exercise directory and I couldn`t find one example of where they stopped short of parallel.

I think for consistency sake, we should call a 90 degree squat, a half squat, anything less than 90 degrees, a quarter squat. A squat should imply going to parallel and a full squat is this:

_________________Stu Ward_________________Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~HippocratesStrength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley_________________Thanks TimD

Im not trying to make judgment over which is best but the main site has this picture in the for the exercise called Squat.

its simply parallel (barely), not very wide. Any variation from that should have a different name, half, full, power-lifting etc. Then everyone knows what you mean.

_________________Stu Ward_________________Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~HippocratesStrength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley_________________Thanks TimD

The squats I'm doing now are between the two examples, probably on the higher side but lower than the dude in the white shorts! Still ironing out calf and adductor flexibility issues! It's funny that squats have had a rep for being bad fir the knees, I've for a bad left knee and the squats make it feel so much berry by the end of a work out!

Most teens do 1/4 squats since a popular school program uses high box squats in the program. Look at the third picture. This comes from the BFS web site.

_________________Stu Ward_________________Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~HippocratesStrength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley_________________Thanks TimD

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